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This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using …
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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment … allocation and gender differences within job types in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Women's summer work …
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We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor market shocks. Double majors experience substantial protection against earnings shocks, of 56%. This finding holds across different model specifications and data sets....
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of employer-imposed vaccine mandates at 581 nursing homes on disease spread, employment outcomes, and several patient …
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anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …
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We provide novel evidence on the role of social comparisons in shaping adolescent body misperception. Using an instrumental variables approach leveraging variation in relative age generated by school entry cutoff months and data from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study, we show...
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Suicide rates among youths aged 15-24 have tripled in the past half-century, even as rates for adults and the elderly … have declined. And for every youth suicide completion, there are nearly 400 suicide attempts. This paper examines the … dynamics of youth suicide attempts and completions, and reaches three conclusions. First, we suggest that many suicide attempts …
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questioning. In addition, ABLs are associated with a 13-16 percent reduction in the suicide rate of female 14- through 18-year …
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SSM laws have reduced suicide attempts among teen sexual minorities, nor have they decreased the likelihood of suicide … planning, suicide ideation, or depression. Instead, we find some evidence that SSM legalization via judicial mandate is …
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